Re: cdlatex-mode in emacs

[thibaut . verron]

On 25/08/2022 17:03, uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me> wrote:
> ------- Original Message -------

> >
> > The file seems well organized to me, the code is grouped according to
> > the provided features. That's a lot easier to use and manage than having
> > to modify n files at exactly the right place anytime one wants to add a
> > new feature.
> >
> > Most of the contents is common concepts, with little bits of
> > instantiation here and there. And a lot of the language-specific content
> > (in terms of lines of code) is documentation rather than code. Again,
> > that's because tex- and latex- mode do not attempt to implement more
> > than basic support for latex files.
> >
> > In any case it is a concern for developers, not users. Do you have
> > changes that you would like to include in tex-mode.el, but can't because
> > of the current file structure?
>
> One feature I did include in my implementation for tex-mode is to highlight
> tex commands such as "\sqrt", "\omega" and the rest.  But the starting "\"
> is not highlighted in order to distinguish different components such as in
> "\alpha\beta" and "\sin\omega_k".

This sounds like a feature which would be common to all tex flavours, and 
therefore be easy to integrate in the current code base, no?

> cdlatex would also be useful for use with texinfo-mode, particularly now that
> texinfo uses mathjax.

cdlatex is a minor mode, so you can activate it in texinfo-mode buffers. Do you 
run into problems when you do that?
(Some languages do expect different markup than latex, leading to wrapper 
packages like org-cdlatex. I don't know texinfo, but I seem to remember that 
cdlatex supports \( \) as math delimiters, which should be useful for mathjax.)